Artificial intelligence, cyber-attacks and genetic engineering could pose potentially catastrophic biosecurity threats to countries around the world, the WHO has warned.
Rapid technological advances in the past decade have “redefined the biological threat landscape” and heightened risks of manipulation, the updated guidance from the WHO’s Technical Advisory Group on Biosafety said. The report advised that member states should include “essential elements of biological risk mitigation and management” within their national laboratory biosafety and laboratory biosecurity strategies.
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